Hartland Horsemen toy horse and cowboy TV western star guide book - Gail Fitch

Description

To author Gail Fitch: "Your books are priceless." -- eBay feedback, 2021
"Visually arresting" ... "Excellent resource" ... Makes a great gift ...
From the dedicated Hartland source for 39 years ...
Shipped in a sturdy box ...
Your book will be signed and numbered, and you'll receive extra pages.
Hartland Horsemen
160 pages ..... 8.5" x 11"..... paperbound
Over 500 color photos, plus B/W historic photos
Published by Schiffer ... Includes values
Features interviews with company officials dating to the 1940s
Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced collector, you will love
Hartland Horsemen. If you simply want to identify Hartland riders and their horses
and hats, guns, saddles, etc., and get an idea of what's scarce and pricing ranges
for various levels of completeness and condition, this guide will help immensely.
Hartland stands alone in the quality and quantity of its plastic horse-and-rider
sets. The over six dozen sets depicting characters in TV westerns and historical
heroes were made in four scales, and most had at leastfive pieces per set.
Nearly every hat was a different shape. A total of about 150 horses, mostly 8"
or taller -- were used with the riders. Many riders transitioned among two or
more horses during the 1950s-1960s. It's a complex and breathtaking body of
work. With their finely-molded detail and precision painting, they were too good
to be toys, but we played with them anyway!
This book will help you match the correct horses, riders, saddles, hats, guns, etc.
Reading about the TV shows and actors will take you back to the time when
westerns dominated TV. The book includes interviews with Hartland officials,
whom the author began locating in 1980, and historic photos in addition to
the 500+ color photos. Hartland Horsemen includes original prices, value
ranges, and scarcity ratings that never become outdated.
Most rider sets and extra horses with reins were released in the 1950s and
1960s, but this book also includes the 1970s, '80s, and '90s re-releases.
(Note: the 1950s-1990s "regular" or "individual" Hartland horses -- the ones
without reins or riders -- are in a separate book, Hartland Horses and Dogs.)
Comments from buyers:
"Visually arresting!" --
Hartland horse & rider collector
"I can't get my face out of this book!" --
horse collector and artist
"Beautiful horses"
-- elderly farmer in a nursing home
"Wonderful book! Great illustrations! I love that it included updated info." -- eBay feedback
"Excellent Resource!! VERY Pleased. Highly recommend. -- eBay feedback
"Hartland Horsemen has been invaluable for me in researching my collection. You did a
wonderful job." -- Mike G.
"I want to compliment you on a truly fine book. I find the Hartland statues fascinating,
and your book really brings them to life." -- Bill L.
"I just wanted you to know how impressed I am with the Hartland Horsemen book. I really
enjoy looking at it! It is very well done. I enjoy the stories in back as well. You have done
a tremendous amount of research, and have made this book very complete. It's made me
even more interested in collecting Hartland than Breyer! -- Paula W.
"Thank you for such a wonderful book. It's rekindled my memories ... I played just about
every day with the Hartlands I had as a kid. Thank you for a wonderful book and keeping
me young at heart." -- Steve B.
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